“Our office manager was upset that people weren’t responding promptly enough to the Christmas party invitation,” says our submitter in San Diego.
In keeping with the holiday spirit of things, the office manager  apparently channeled that anger into the posting of this (uncredited) About.com excerpt in the office kitchen, for the edification of all. How that’s [...]

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With morale at many companies coasting towards all-time lows, those peppy human resources specialists keep coming up with new budget-conscious ways to keep us worker bees happily humming along. To wit: “Popcorn Thursday.” Sounds like a total blast, right?

Meanwhile, an anonymous post-it writer in Denver speaks up for how employees really feel about these “morale [...]

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happy thxgiving, everyone!

related: it takes a “genius” to come up with a potluck theme like this one

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spotted by lange from cambridge, mass. while campaigning for obama in new hampshire. says lange: “decided against bugging them with our political spiel. (we assumed they were obama supporters anyway.)”

meanwhile, corporate belt-tightening isn’t going over so well with the office grunts this halloween.  “this was the response to the environment/holiday committee’s lack of halloween candy [...]

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Dealing with the rantings of your crazy boss or overzealous receptionist is one thing, but what do you do when your office’s resident passive-aggressive note-leaver doesn’t even work there? Casey in San Diego (a.k.a. RunBarbara) says that’s the situation she’s found herself in at her job.
The offender, Sandra, “has met me a total of twice, [...]

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“We really don’t hate the holidays,” says our anonymous foreign-policy elf in Washington, D.C., “just passive-aggressive coworkers.”

related: Perhaps a committee to assess the health of the committee?

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I think what fascinates me most about this e-mail, from the head of the party planning committee — excuse me, “fun fund” — at an office in Toronto, is the subject line. Not only does the writer ignore the obvious “let them eat cake,” she vetoes the direct approach (“hey, fatty”) in favor of the [...]

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says “anony-scrooge”:
my office is ridiculous about cards and donations. the smallest of occasions warrants cards, money, balloons, flowers, a singing telegram, etc. last christmas was no exception. by mid-december, we had been asked for no less than $150 each in contributions for this and that.
the straw that broke the camel’s back was the sudden [...]

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